Ville Pirinen

(b. 1973, Finland)

Ville Pirinen is a Finnish comic artist, illustrator and musician. He published his first book, 'Nahka-Alma', with Irisz Simon in 1993. Between 1995 and 2008 he has worked with Finnish scriptwrtier Pauli Kallio on the comic about notorious DJ Ornette Birks Makkonen. He has subsequently created a series of comics that are based on weird stories he or his friends have heard. They are collected in books like 'Yhesti yhes neljännes paikas' (2011), 'Yhesti yhes kolmannes paikas', (2010), 'Yhesti yhes toises paikas' (2010) and 'Yhesti yhes paikas' (2009).